fun fact: The ending to this game was locked behind DLC that never came out.

You mentioned the playstation 1 Hellboy game, so I thought I should share this: when I was in art school back in 2003, Mike Mignola was invited to speak to our class. I forget how the subject of the PS1 game came up, but he told us that he actually had no idea about the making of the game and had only learned of it when he saw an ad for it in a magazine, contacted Dark Horse who apparently also had no idea what that was about. So yeah...not sure how that game actually got around to being made.

We need a modern Hellboy game in the style of Darksiders/God of War.

I completely blanked this game from my mind after its 1 out of 5 X-Play review, and I keep forgetting about that PS1 Hellboy game too. With those 2 messes and Hellboy 2019, it's like, maybe Del Toro was the magic touch to this franchise, and now a Oscar winner, maybe he can have his 3rd movie... Or a animated one like those other 2... God, I miss Ron Perlman playing him, no matter what, he delivers, goddamn Universal gotta be Universal I guess.

Hellboy (2019) is definitely a what happened. The movie was so bad my girlfriend left half through and stranded me at the theatre. Had to get a cab home she was so mad at how bad it is.

The truly tragic part of this game is that the last few levels (including a character named Lobster Johnson voiced by Bruce Campbell) are locked on the disk with no way to access them. On Xbox 360 the game released in violation of Microsoft's (at the time) policy that every retail release had to have 1000 gamerscore. I was so angry when I learned that it couldn't be completed 100%. Krome Studios admitted all the content was there, Konami just decided to lock it. This game released at a time where a lot of publishers were doing that so they could sell a pass/dlc that was only ever an unlock code and not actually new content. Such a bad game and omg the achievements that are obtainable are absolutely ridiculous. Kill X number of enemies using a level specific item. Oh btw each item breaks after a half a dozen hits and it takes over a dozen hits to kill an enemy smh.

Liked the writing on the dead people, gate and Hellboy himself, at least. I'll give this train-wreck that much. The skeleton king was kinda cool, too.

You know, there is a parallel timeline that our boy will be playing Bayonetta bashing it and the youtube will recognised it as Hellboy: The Science of Evil.

I like that KZfaq recognizes this gameplay as "Bayonetta"

Never knew this game existed

LT is Hellboy's gun hand and RT is the big hand to grab with, so it kinda makes sense, its just we are too used to RT being the gun trigger.

Man, Perlman really took ANY opportunity to play Hellboy back in the day, huh? Makes me wonder if he was approached to play him in Injustice 2.

I remember playing this game with my friend back in highschool and after 5 minutes we just turned off the ps3 and play mk shaolin monks on the ps2 lmao

My only memory of this game was reading in a gaming magazine that the announced DLC wasn't coming out. I remember thinking that was unusual because at the time I had never heard of officially announced DLC being cancelled after the game was released. Although shortly after that MK vs DC and the TNA Impact game (anyone remember that?) had DLC cancelled due to Midway pulling the ultimate Midway and going bankrupt. Actually there's a kinda funny coincidence there because the guys who made MK vs DC went on to make Injustice 2 which had Hellboy as a DLC character that was actually released.

The bats look like the "m"s we used to draw for birds when we were children

The Hellboy title he’s referring to is Hellboy: Dogs of the Night originally for PC back in 2000 by Cryo Studios but 3 yrs later a PlayStation port came and the title is Hellboy: Asylum Seeker developed by Hoplite Research 😁

Hellboy has had two chances to be a good game...third time will be the charm someday? The comic is done (Interesting ending that makes sense) so they could make a series based on the main plot that goes on.

Okay but hear me out, a Hellboy 2D run n’ gun with puzzle elements and awesome music like Earthworm Jim. With the art style of Mike Mignola. That would be perfect for me

You know you’re in for a treat when not even KZfaq knows what this game is.

Whoever voiced Hellboy in this game is amazing, it fits so well with his character. People always think Hellboy is a big tough guy, but in the comics he's just a chill-ass dude, he's sassy and don't give a fu*k about anything

psp version didn't have any of the fancy cutscenes , instead it had these comic book esque images with voice over i think , it was a fun game for the most part.

I would love to see a modern Hellboy game

Awesome job as always Matt

As a big Hellboy fan i'm still waiting for a good Hellboy videogame. I mean... Is really that hard to pitch ideas for a Hellboy game? Is a demon son of the lord of hell and a witch that work as a paranormal detective, has a stone hand, Big guns, a don't give a shit attitude, kills monsters, have a charismatic cast of misfits Friends and uses folklore and fantasy horror lore to his stories... Come on, that shit writes itself, just put Hellboy in a hack and slash style game were he beats monsters and stuff. Why is so fucking hard?

Yo after googling this game the only memory i have of it is seeing ads in justice league comics i would get around the time of release. I was like 9.

"Your power is terrible and to be admired." - I'm totally using that from now on! XD

as someone who loves the original stories, and has seen both toro movies and the remake, i think they're all great in their own ways, neither movie version is perfect and that's fine, it's what makes the comic so special

Bruce Campbell was supposed to be in this as a Lobster Johnson DLC. It was unsurprisingly never released because the game was shite and nobody bought it!

Memberberries are hitting hard with this video awesome work bro💙

I very excitedly borrowed this out while working at GameStop. Woe: science of evil be upon ye.

Definitely wanted to try this as a kid, but I’m kinda glad I never did. This probably could have been given more development love!

i remember renting this from blockbuster and not getting very far

Dude your laugh is so damn infectious

I'm pretty in love with this ngl, i really wanna see more

That Wario skeleton king.

as a hardline Hellboy comics fan and someone who appreciates the Del Toro movies, you can see that this game has some love for both, conceptually, but... man, the execution is dogshit lol. the 2019 movie was god-awful and reeks of rewrites and crunch and studio meddling. I'd definitely be interested in seeing how a movie with a potentially perfectly-cast Hellboy and good creature design somehow turned into a rushed, Bay-esque mess of a story with a whiny teenage Hellboy set to butt rock.

Maybe shooting is on LT because Hellboy shoots with his left hands, and grabs with his stone right hand? Still a weird configuration, though.

This and Watchmen End of Night are completely forgotten about

1:44 As a random thought, a crossover between Sonic and Hellboy would be kinda cool. :)

Bro does anyone remember the game Raze’s Hell? Or is that just me

I can confirm I never want to see this again. Thank you for you service, Matt.

oh lord i remember playing this on the psp... that was certainly an experience

Read Message "Don't give up, skeleton!" Switch Action Read Message "Try finger but hole."

I like the art style :p

I always look for the good in games. Ones like this, i hope to find something to keep me going in them. You made it further than I ever did. I still own this on 360. maybe i will have to revisit it lol

Bruce Campbell as Lobster Johnson...sold.

Was hoping you'd get to the hype level 2 gorilla fight where you spend 10 minutes doing QTEs then get drop kicker out a window and have to re-start it from the beginning

Hellboy Web of Wyrd looks awesome, excited for that.

Ok ... Lmaoo this was actually one of my childhood games 👀😂 Played a lot of co op with my cousin, game was frustrating but we had a lot of fun cause of how big hell boy fans we are

I like this game, personally. It was fun.

I just started playing this game for the first time and I don’t really understand the hate. I do agree the gameplay is repetitive but I don’t think it’s a deal breaker or anything. I was surprised at how smooth the game ran. I didn’t have any framerate drops and glitches or anything and I’m playing on the 360. Maybe it’s blind fandom but I’m actually enjoying the game so far.

My thumbs up is for the title alone as it is the most accurate thing I have ever read.

I was/am still such a big Hellboy fan and I wanted so badly for this game to be good :(

Loved this game on the 360 growing up! Just curious, did this game play also in wide screen for anybody else or was it just me?

I remember this game. I wanted it because I was a big Hellboy game, however I find it hilarious that they used the theme music by Marco Beltrami from the first movie.

I played and beat this game and enjoyed it but going back to it...oh god

Matts constant struggle with subtitles has got to be one of those passive things in life that make you feel like you’re losing your mind.

I remember having this game on PS3. I sat down to play it once, got frustrated with it then never played it again. It.... wasn't great.

Would love to see a what happened on the newer hellboy movie. or the games, just from the comments I can see there's a lot of stories to tell there.

Looks like I gotta check out a playthrough of this, the cutscenes are funny, at least.

I still have this. A bit of a pain trying to find anyone to play co-op.

I really think that a point and click is the only genera that really makes scense for hellboy

5:39 Yes!

A game where they relegate Kevin Conroy to the voice of a locked gate is not one I want to play.

in other news the hellboy novels are great. especially the one where he fights norse mythology creatures.

For some reason, hearing Hellboy speak in this game reminds me of Bill Murray's Garfield.

Gameplay looks dragging, but the voice work of the skeletons and the gate seem charming.

I'm sure you know that once beyond good and evil 2 comes out we're gonna need a big fat what happened

So the mates behind Ty the Tasmanian Tiger cooked this one up....Not good on ya.

Thanks for covering this game Matt I played it on my PSP lol its an average action game, please cover the ps1 one game asylum seeker 😅

We need another Hellboy movie where Hellboy and Liz did not hook up. They have more of a big brother little sister dynamic in the books. Plus Liz was like 12 when they first met. Ick.

Man this was one of the first 360 games I ever owned! I never beat it because I got caught in a bugged state and got frustrated. Good times

Almost 2 years now 😭

they should combine the gameplay of pentiment and unto the end and make a hellboy game out of it

"For the PS3, 360 and PSP" That explains it, I remembered seeing this game on /v/ back then in a thread for finding solid psp games

I remember there were also alot of Hellboy animated movies too? around this time too. Hellboy on the ps1 if I remember it was a pc port converted to the ps1 and it still had issues what the pc version had and maybe worst?

I wonder if netherealm studios asked Ron if he wanted to voice hellboy in injustice 2 🤔

Oooh! Id love it if you did a wha happun? for Hell Boy!!

What really throws me for a loop is how BAD the audio mixing is on those skeletons. I can legit hear both voice clips barely overlapping each other, separately. I was able to do a spookier voice, in audacity, in two minutes, and I absolutely have no training in audio recording.

I remember seeing this game on a rack at Cumberland Farms. I never knew it existed before that and picked it up because I'm a huge fan of the del toro movies. I'm such a fan that I actually enjoyed this game, despite its flaws lol. I mean, for a game based on a movie I didn't think it was that terrible 🤷🏻‍♂️

The latest Hellboy movie was so bad that I ended up falling asleep about 15 minutes in.

I'd love to see someone make a good hellboy game, like I could see it beign like an uncharted game super adventure focused but mixed with a nice heavy combat lean.

Holy shit I rented this game when I was a wee young lad

Man that camera tho

The PSP version is much better from what I have heard.

I remember when i almost bought this game as a kid

Has he played the Watchmen game?

Looks ok and apparently he is voiced by ron Perlman .

You should do a what happened regarding the Hellboy reboot.

i actually owned the psp version when I was a kid graphically looked like a watered down early gen ps2 title but with horrible texture filtering

I have the guidebook for this game.

To be fair, matt, it wasn't hard to get a playstation adaptation. I mean, even Bubsy got a playstation game.

I remember this! First game I ever played on the PS3. I remember enjoying it, but then again I remember enjoying alot of games that weren't very good. Edit: I was also just a kid. A kid with poor taste in video games.

Matt, you should play the PS2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer game, Chaos Bleeds.

I've gotta be honest the cutscenes aint half bad

Oh my im getting flashbacks just looking at this game

I played thru this game...it was not good.

mike mignola needs to stop giving out licenses

I actually like this game but I liked Bullet Witch so there's that

This is like The Witcher prequel!